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[Doppel]

I will have a complete box SNES library. Probably N64 and GameCube too, maaaaybe NES some day.

No aspirations for complete sets for CD systems besides Sega CD which is only like 200 games. 3000+ releases for PS for example and 90% of it is crap filler. I think I can live without a room full of madden CDs or Captain Crunch vs Spongebob and all that junk...

CDs made video game spam and shovelware possible due to costing nothing to make.

There was a lot of shovelware with Atari, though. I remember paying $10 or so for absolute trash Atari 2600 titles and I did this because I didn't have the $20-30 for the quality games, so if I got a few bucks together I'd get something just absolutely God-awful. Laser Volley was the only one of these cheap trash games that was actually pretty good. Otherwise I had to judge the entire game based on its front of package image.

I LOVE Halo 2. Mmmmmmm. One of my all time favorite games. Thank you MS, thank you.

I've played Halo 1, 2, and 4, and really 1 was the only one I found very good. It was novel, with its vehicles. Very cool. 4 was a real disappointment last year. I bet its multiplay was good but its story was so paper thin. After playing something like mass effect 3 (damn the haters, I will have all their heads) playing something without a story like halo 4 was really quite blah.

 

[Tweak155]

There was a lot of shovelware with Atari, though. I remember paying $10 or so for absolute trash Atari 2600 titles and I did this because I didn't have the $20-30 for the quality games, so if I got a few bucks together I'd get something just absolutely God-awful. Laser Volley was the only one of these cheap trash games that was actually pretty good. Otherwise I had to judge the entire game based on its front of package image.I've played Halo 1, 2, and 4, and really 1 was the only one I found very good. It was novel, with its vehicles. Very cool. 4 was a real disappointment last year. I bet its multiplay was good but its story was so paper thin. After playing something like mass effect 3 (damn the haters, I will have all their heads) playing something without a story like halo 4 was really quite blah.

I only played MP on Halo 2. It was so well done and was a blast with 4 players on one console.

 

[exdeath]

2600 is terrible but its only like 900 games and manageable. Its just...so random and ad hoc as far as collecting goes. System means nothing to me even though a I grew up with one. It was just a meh system. Which is ok by me because its the worst to collect for. I might entertain 5200 and 7800 just because they are more obscure and novelty and only 30-50 games.

Something like PS2 is over 8000 titles.....yeah no. Ill stick with 100 or so must haves.

SNES collection at 722 titles complete in box is a reasonable pursuit and its the system that means the most to me. Even buying a complete collection outright would run just under $20,000 which isnt too out there, and I already have the most expensive and most sought after ones that makes up half of that value.

GameCube, 64, and Sega CD are small libraries and easy as well. As is Master System and Jaguar lol.

I only do official release games too. Not getting tied up with contest carts that one person in the world won or having every version of every prototype cart and all that nonsense.

 

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If that complete SNES collection comes with a sealed Chrono Trigger, it is going to be more than $20,000. =( I feel bad for whoever purchased it and didn't open and play the crap out of it though.

 

[exdeath]

I don't do sealed games when you start talking that kind of money.

Too easy to get ripped off because who is going to open a $10,000 game and turn it into a $900 game to know if its a fake or not?

With the dollars involved with sealed games, if I was less than honest, I would spend thousands to get boxes and carts reprinted with the proper H seam and all. I am meticulous enough that you would NEVER be able to tell.

I have a complete in box mint Chrono Trigger anyway, even the warranty card.

Chrono Trigger isn't even the most expensive. Something like Earthbound or Aero Fighters would be.

Besides... I actually play my games eventually.

Complete in box, not necessarily sealed, all 722 titles have come and gone on eBay a few times at <= 20k with no takers. I grabbed all the top rarest and expensive games a while back before it got stupid. Half that 20k is for like 12 titles honestly.

Once you get past the cherished RPGs and oddballs, its just $20 here $30 there for the remaining 650 titles.

$100 will instantly boost your collection to half for all the sports and filler games lol.